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Nature
7 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
7 posts
Where to Start with Delia Owens: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Delia Owens — how to approach Where the Crawdads Sing, her essential debut novel set in the North Carolina marshes. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Frances Hodgson Burnett — whether to begin with The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, or Little Lord Fauntleroy. A complete reading guide.
Best Environmental Fiction: Novels About Nature and Climate
The best environmental fiction — from The Overstory and Bewilderment to Flight Behavior and The Ministry for the Future. Novels about nature, ecology, and climate change.
Where to Start with Michael Pollan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michael Pollan — whether to begin with The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, or How to Change Your Mind. A complete reading guide.
Books Like A Walk in the Woods: Comic and Wilderness Trail Narratives
Bill Bryson's account of attempting the Appalachian Trail combines outdoor adventure, natural history, and sustained comedy. These books share its qualities: the everyday person in an extreme situation, honest about failure, and funnier than the format usually allows.
Books Like Into the Wild: Escape, Nature, and the American Wilderness
Jon Krakauer's account of Chris McCandless — who gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness, and starved to death — is one of the most argued-over books of the last thirty years. These books share its fascination with the person who rejects civilization, its love of wild places, and its unresolved question: was McCandless a romantic idealist or a fool?
Books Like The Overstory: Trees, Ecology, and the Human Failure to See What Matters
Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows nine characters whose lives are changed by trees — and the trees themselves, older and slower and more real than any of them. These books share its ecological vision, its multi-protagonist structure, and its moral urgency about the natural world.
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